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Page 57
MISS LORE--Shall I say "had risen"?
MR. PENNE (very slowly and with desperate deliberation)--"The--sun--
himself--had--rows--of--blushing--pinks--and--bollyhocks--and--
hyacinths--waiting--that--he--might--dry--their--dew-drenched--cups."
MISS LORE--Oh!
MR. PENNE(dictates)--"The earliest trolley, scattering the birds from
its pathway like some marauding cat, brought Cortland over from Oldport.
He had forgotten his fair--"
MISS LORE--Hm! Wonder how he got the conductor to----
Mr. PENNE (very loudly)--"Forgotten his fair and roseate visions of the
night in the practical light of the sober morn."
MISS LORE--Oh!
MR. PENNE (dictates)--"He greeted her with his usual smile and manner.
'See the waves,' he cried, pointing to the heaving waters of the sea,
'ever wooing and returning to the rockbound shore.'" "'Ready to break,'
Kate said, with----"
MISS LORE--My! One evening he has his arm around her, and the next
morning he's ready to break her head! Just like a man!
MR. PENNE (with suspicious calmness)--There are times, Miss Lore, when a
man becomes so far exasperated that even a woman--But suppose we finish
the sentence. (Dictates.) "'Ready to break,' Kate said, with the
thrilling look of a soul-awakened woman, 'into foam and spray,
destroying themselves upon the shore they love so well."
MISS LORE--Oh!
MR. PENNE (dictates)--"Cortland, in Kate's presence heard faintly the
voice of caution. Thirty years had not cooled his ardor. It was in his
power to bestow great gifts upon this girl. He still retained the
beliefs that he had at twenty." (To Miss Lore, wearily) I think that
will be enough for the present.
MISS LORE (wisely)--Well, if he had the twenty that he believed he had,
it might buy her a rather nice one.
MR. PENNE (faintly)--The last sentence was my own. We will discontinue
for the day, Miss Lore.
MISS LORE--Shall I come again to-morrow?
MR. PENNE (helpless under the spell)--If you will be so good.
(Exit Miss Lore.)
ASBESTOS CURTAIN
TICTOCQ
[These two farcical stories about Tictocq appeared in
The Rolling Stone. They are reprinted here with all of
their local references because, written hurriedly and for
neighborly reading, they nevertheless have an interest for
the admirer of O. Henry. They were written in 1894.]
THE GREAT FRENCH DETECTIVE, IN AUSTIN
A Successful Political Intrigue
CHAPTER I
It is not generally known that Tictocq, the famous French detective, was
in Austin last week. He registered at the Avenue Hotel under an assumed
name, and his quiet and reserved manners singled him out at once for one
not to be singled out.
No one knows why he came to Austin, but to one or two he vouchsafed the
information that his mission was an important one from the French
Government.
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